Department of Modern Languages and Literatures students and faculty will present tales of terror and suspense in various languages at the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday, October 30, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

María DiFrancesco recently presented a peer-reviewed paper, entitled "Just Like a Fairy Tale: A Family Systems Therapy Approach to Incest and Violence in Cristina Fernández Cubas's El columpio," at the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica's annual conference in Decatur, Georgia.

Assistant professor Maria DiFrancesco’s book Feminine Agency and Transgression in Post Franco Spain: Generational Becoming in the Narratives of Carme Riera, Cristina Fernández Cubas and Mercedes Abad, was recently released by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. In her book, DiFrancesco considers the ways in which these three contemporary Spanish authors have pushed the limits of sexual and gender related discourse by relentlessly depicting controversial female agents in their narratives, from Sapphic lovers to monstrous mothers.

Assistant professor Maria DiFrancesco and professor Gladys M. Varona-Lacey presented papers at the annual meeting of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILFCH), held October 24-27 in Seville, Spain.